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Lordy lordy, is that ATP Versus: You (The Fans) festival ever shaping up to be a tripped-out, no-holds-barred, dusted-up throwdown the likes of which the indie world has never seen.

Since we last reported, the stakes have gone through the roof: the ATP overseers have bolstered their already impressive roster with Slint (as you know), Isis, and Cornelius, while the Fan contingent-- a voting body which includes YOU, my friend-- has retaliated mightily by enlisting the aid of Les Savy Fav, Wilco, Yo La Tengo, the Go! Team, the Thermals, Daniel Johnston, Clinic, Okkervil River, Annuals, Trans Am, Two Gallants, and Bat for Lashes.

In reality, everybody wins, because fans and ATP organizers alike get to see all of these bands-- plus previously reported titans like Modest Mouse, Mogwai, Built to Spill, Battles, Band of Horses, Explosions in the Sky, Patti Smith, Grizzly Bear, and more-- rattle Minehead, England's perpetually rockin' Butlins Holiday Centre from May 18 thru 20. The complete lineup to date is reprinted for your convenience below.

Bear in mind the polls remain open; exercise your right to vote here. At present Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks, 65daysofstatic, Eels, Final Fantasy, and Four Tet comprise the top five fan picks, while ATP has extended offers to American Analog Set, Architecture in Helsinki, Chavez, Hood, Jens Lekman, Subtle, the Decemberists, and Xiu Xiu. As if shit weren't off the heezy enough.

And because the parties of tomorrow rage on ad infinitum, ATP also has its Dirty Three-curated shindig going down April 27-29 at the usual joint. Since our last transmission, Suicide's Alan Vega, Einsturzende Neubauten, White Magic, Sally Timms, We Ragazzi, and Yann Tiersen have joined another humdinger of a lineup that includes Cat Power, Joanna Newsom, Grinderman (and Nick Cave solo), Bill Callahan, Low, Magnolia Electric Co, A Silver Mount Zion, J. Spaceman, and more.

And as you know well by now, the Pitchfork Music Festival has teamed with All Tomorrow's Parties to present an installment of Don't Look Back, in which seminal artists play their seminal albums in their entirety. We've already announced Sonic Youth, who'll melt faces when they blaze through Daydream Nation at Chicago's Union Park on July 13. Be on the lookout for more announcements and get yr tickets here.

ATP vs. the Fans lineup:

Akron/Family
Annuals
The Apples in Stereo
Band of Horses
Bat for Lashes
Battles
The Books
Brightblack Morning Light
Built to Spill
Capricorns
Clinic
Cornelius
Current 93
Death Vessel
Do Make Say Think
Echo & the Bunnymen
Edan + MC Dagha
Explosions in the Sky
Ghost
The Go! Team
Grizzly Bear
Isis
Daniel Johnston
Les Savy Fav
Micah P. Hinson
Modest Mouse
Mogwai
The Notwist
Okkervil River
Patti Smith
Shellac
Slint
Sparklehorse
The Thermals
Trans Am
Alexander Tucker
Two Gallants
Wilco
Yo La Tengo
Youth Movie Soundtrack Strategies